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Saturday's games VIRGINIA (2-1, 1-0 ACC) AT NO. 21 BRIGHAM YOUNG (3-0) WHEN: 3:30 p.m. WHERE: LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, Utah. THE SKINNY: U.Va. got its season off to a grand start last year by shutting down BYU quarterback Taysom Hill (68 percent completions for 689 yards, four touchdowns and three interceptions; 356 yards rushing and six TDs) on its way to a 19-16 win against the Cougars. It was U.Va.'s last win all season against a Football Bowl Subdivision program. Now, after last weekend's win against No. 21 Louisville, U.Va. could find itself flirting with a spot in The Associated Press top 25 for the first time in three years if it can get its second straight...

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Saturday's gamesVIRGINIA (2-1, 1-0 ACC) AT NO. 21 BRIGHAM YOUNG (3-0)WHEN: 3:30 p.m.WHERE: LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, Utah.THE SKINNY: U.Va. got its season off to a grand start last year by shutting down BYU...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Virginia defeated Brigham Young to open last season. The Cougars finished 8-5, the Cavaliers 2-10. Virginia bested Penn State early in 2012. The Nittany Lions went 8-4, the Cavaliers 4-8.
Senior linebacker Henry Coley, a team captain,...

The eyeball test is inconclusive. I have seen Virginia and Virginia Tech in-person three times each this football season and have no clue which is better.
Numbers offer no clarity. Indeed, whether perusing basic NCAA statistics or more advanced metrics...

PROVO, Utah — Virginia did almost everything right statistically to upset another ranked opponent.
The Cavaliers rolled up more than 500 yards of offense. They more than doubled Brigham Youngin time of possession and benefited from ill-timed penalties...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Ian Frye witnessed his father's first heart attack. Chest pains, shortness of breath, hot flashes. So he knew precisely what was transpiring Saturday at halftime of Virginia's football game at Brigham Young.
Frye, the Cavaliers'...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Conrad Hotel in downtown Indianapolis includes a spa, art gallery and wine bar, opulence unavailable this weekend to the 10 men and women of the NCAA basketball tournament selection committee sequestered on the 18th floor.
Shadowed...

Craig Littlepage and Whit Babcock took opposite sides in the ACC's recent football-scheduling debate but agree that the conference's Coastal and Atlantic divisions likely will remain intact, at least for the early years of college football's playoff era....

Virginia endured a 26-point beating from Florida in the teams’ opening NCAA basketball tournament game in 2012. Had the new bracketing guidelines that the NCAA unveiled Thursday been in place then, the Cavaliers and Gators would not have met.
To avoid...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Virginia's defensive challenge in Week 2 against Oregon clearly is daunting. A more nuanced, and arguably far more critical, test awaits in Saturday's opener against visiting Brigham Young.
Not to completely dismiss the Cavaliers'...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — It took over five hours all told, but the University of Virginia fought off Mother Nature and rallied to get its season off on the right foot, defeating Brigham Young 19-16 on Saturday.
Trailing by four points late in the fourth...

Consider this admiration from afar. Admiration that a team wins when punting 13 times, gaining a meager 223 yards and losing the turnover battle. Wins from behind in wretched conditions thanks to a defense and special teams that required offseason...

David Watford admits he's mentally put himself in Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota's shoes. As a quarterback, it's hard not to envision what you might be able to do in an offense as frenetic as Oregon's.
That's not to say Watford doesn't have faith in...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Admirably and quite inaccurately, David Watford shouldered the blame. One touchdown in 16 possessions? Four turnovers and no downfield passing game? Anemic rushing for the second time in as many games?
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Oregon punted four times, failed twice on fourth-and-1 and dropped several passes. Translation: The Ducks’ 59-10 rout of Virginia on Saturday didn’t reach the unattainable standards that their point-a-minute offense has created.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — From player introductions to final horn Saturday, Virginia Tech's ACC basketball opener was bleak.
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Virginia Tech’s 70-68 loss to Brigham Young on Wednesday exposed a consistent shortcoming in Seth Greenberg’s program and the primary reason his Hokies have earned only one NCAA tournament bid: An inability to beat quality non-conference opponents during...

Colonial Athletic Association commish Tom Yeager said that CAA member schools probably would listen to a pitch from East Carolina for partial membership, if the Pirates don’t receive full Big East Conference membership.
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